Sinon Bulls

The Sinon Bulls (興農牛), formerly Jungo Bears and Sinon Bears, are one of the four teams in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. The team is owned by Sinon Corporation and plays most of its home games in Taichung. Those home games are played at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

History

The Jungo Era (1993-1995)

The Jungo Bears (俊國熊) existed in CPBL between 1993 and 1995. Originally formed as an amateur club by the Taichung-based Jungo Corporation in 1989, this club was professionalized in 1992 after absorbing a group of players from the Chinese Taipei national baseball team who just won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, similar to its sister team China Times Eagles. This club took Taichung Baseball Field as its home throughout its history.

Despite a nice start, this club had been performing poorly throughout its short history, mainly due to the controversial leading styles of Jungo Corporation's then chairman Chen I-ping (陳一平). After a chain of rows over TV broadcast rights and the distribution of TV broadcast royalties, in November 1995 the other 5 teams of CPBL expelled Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation's all legal rights inside CPBL. The Sinon Corporation took over this team and renamed it as Sinon Bears, which was later renamed again as Sinon Bulls in June 1996. Later in 1999 Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation sought to sponsor Taiwan Major League (TML)'s Taichung Agan but TML did not respond.

The Sinon Era......

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